Railway-tie and fastening



(No Model.)

, L. GOLDER. RAILWAY TIE AND FASTENING.

No. 541,325. Patented June 18, 1895.

ewa)" Qaidek UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

LEWIS GOLDER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

RAILWAY-TIE AND FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 541,325, dated J une18, 1895.

Application filed November 13, 1894-. Serial No. 528,654. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEwIs GOLDER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties andFastenings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification, and in which Figure l is a plan or top View of one of myimproved railway-ties and its fastenings for the rails. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal sectional view through the tie and fastenings on thevertical plane indicated by the broken line marked on a: in Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a transverse sectional view on line y y in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 isa perspective detail View of one of the fulcru med bottom plates orbinding-plates removed from the tie, and Fig. 5 is a perspective detailView of one of the bifurcated rail clamps or clips removed from the railand tie.

Like letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

My invention relates to metallic railway-ties of that type which areprovided with lookingattachments for fastening the rails to the tie, andconsists in a novel arrangement and combination of the rails, tie, andfastening-devices, whereby the rails are locked firmly to the ties bythe weight of passing trains operating upon a pair of lever-plateslocated beneath the tie and which bind the rail-clips or clamps againstthe base or bottom-flange of the rail; substantially as will behereinafter more fully described and claimed.

On the accompanying drawings, the reference-letter A denotes the railsand B one of the metallic ties, which is cast with parallel and slightlydiverging side-flanges, b b, as usual. Each rail A is bedded upon theflat top of the tie between, and impinging with its base against, twoparallel transverse slots a a, through which are inserted, on oppositesides of the rail, the apertured, right-angled lugs O of thelever-plates or binding-plates D; one of which is shown in detail inFig. 4. Each of these plates (of which there are four to each tie, viz.,two at each end, for each rail) consists of a flat, square orrectangular plate D, provided at one end, projecting upwardly at rightangles with a lug 0- having a rectangular aperture 0, and at theopposite end or side with a depending flange cl, of the same width asthe plate.

Each rail is held in place firmly upon the tie, between its appropriatepair of slots or apertures a a, by means of a pair of bifurcated clips EE, the two parallel limbs of which straddle a bolt F, insertedvertically through the flat top of the tie and having a washer, f,placed upon it between its head F and the under side of the tie. AnotherWEtSllGl,f, is placed upon the upwardly projecting, screwthreaded end ofthe bolt so as to bear against the top or upper side of the bifurcatedclip or fastening E, which is clamped between the flat top of the tieand the superimposed washerf by means of a nut, G. The bifurcated end ofclip E is inserted through the rectangular aperture 0 in theright-angled lug G on plate D, which, as we have seen, is insertedthrough its registering SlOtCt in the fiat top of the tieplate. Theunder side of the two parallel limbs of the clip E, which projectthrough the apertured lug or projection 0,-is cut off so as to form arecess 6, whereby the inner ends of both clips, arranged opposite toeach other, on opposite sides of the rail, are enabled to overlap andpress or bear against the flanges of the rail-base, as clearlyillustrated in Fig. 2. From the foregoing description, taken inconnection with the drawings, the combination of the rail, tie, andfastening devices, and the operation of the latter, will readily beunderstood. By reference to Fig. 2 on the drawings it will be observedthat each of the plates D, on the under side of the tie-plate, restswith.

its end-flange d upon the ballast H, and bears with its flat top orupper face against the head F of the bolt F, thus forming a lever forwhich the bolt-head operates as the fulcrum. From this construction andarrangement it follows, that when heavy pressure is brought to bear uponthe railas, for example, by trains passing over the road-bearing downupon the rail as indicated by the arrows, this downward pressure will betaken up by the flat top of the tie-plate upon which the rails arebedded; and as the depending flange d,

which supports one end of each of the bottom-plates or lever-plates Dupon the ballast, extends farther or deeper down than the parallelbottom-flanges b b of the tie-plate, it follows that these transversebearings or flanges 'cl cl will operate as fulcra for the tie, so as totilt or rock the plates D upon their f ulcra F, as indicated by thearrows in Fig. 2, and thereby draw the apertured lugs or projections Cdown against and upon the inserted ends 'of the bifurcatedfastening-clips E where these overlap and bear against the adjacentsides or flanges of the rail-base, so as to press upon the rail-base andbed it firmly upon the tie-plate with a degree of pressure approximatelycommensurate to the Weight or pressure to which the rails themselves aresubjected. t

If it is desired at any time to remove the rails, for repair or renewal,all that is necessary is to unscrew and loosen the nuts G, when thebifurcated clips E can readily he slipped out of their apertured lugs C;thus releasing the rail-base so that the rails can be lifted 0E the tieand removed;

Having thus described my invention, i

claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent In testimony that I claimthe foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence0t two witnesses.

LEWIS GOLDER.

Witnesses: 7

WILLIAM GREEN, VICTOR GOURNWALD.

